EXETER — John Mikiewicz and Tom Biscotti accomplished their goal of repeating as John A. Allan Memorial Tournament champions on Sunday in convincing fashion.

The duo emerged victorious over David Kluger and Eric Williams 6 and 5 after 13 holes of match play, clinching their second straight tournament title at Fox Hill Country Club.

That made them just the eighth pair to repeat as champions since the Allan was converted to the match play format in 1951.

Even more impressively, Mikiewicz and Biscotti didn’t lose a single hole in the process.

“I said, ‘Tom, we’re not going to lose a hole today. No holes lost.’ I don’t know how you pull it off against this team, but we somehow pulled it off,” Mikiewicz said.

Both teams had to advance past the semifinals earlier in the day to make it to the championship match. Mikiewicz and Biscotti did so with a 3 and 2 victory over Brendan Carroll and Pat Ross.

Kluger and Williams, tournament champions in 2009, defeated a team that took the crown the following year in Robert Gill and Brian Corbett.

However, Kluger and Williams couldn’t prevail over the most recent champs. That became readily apparent as the match wore on.

The teams tied the first two holes and it appeared a competitive match between two former tournament champions was in the making. A Biscotti birdie on the third hole, though, gave the champs a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

“We said one more. Let’s get one more; let’s get one more,” Mikiewicz said. “We never, never let up. We just wanted to make sure that there was no sweat down the road. We just focused on every shot, executed on every shot and saved the best for last.”

A birdie from Mikiewicz on the seventh hole put the champs three up and signaled the beginning of the end. Mikiewicz credited a “great par” from teammate Biscotti for allowing him to put an appropriate pace on the ball.

A few more birdies from Mikiewicz and Biscotti after the turn had the match on ice heading into the crucial 13th hole. And when Kluger failed to hit par on that hole, he and Williams conceded the Allan tournament trophy to a duo looking to leave a lasting imprint on the event.

It may have been an anticlimactic ending to what was a thrilling weekend of golf, but the honor of back-to-back wins in the Allan tournament is not lost on Mikiewicz or Biscotti.

“It means a lot. I think that to be able to win this tournament obviously means you’re playing great,” Biscotti said. “To win it in back-to-back years is something very special. I think we’re in a kind of elite company.”

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